Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being incommunicative.
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- noun The state or condition of being
incommunicative .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Plot and action are alien features; incommunicativeness and random minutiae are no longer a rebellion against an ossified tradition — they're the status quo.
The Quotidian of Love Sam Sacks 2010
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Exhilarated because she was to be alone with him for half an hour, and for all his seriousness and incommunicativeness he was more fascinating than any of the numerous gentlemen in the ballroom who would have given a right arm for the privilege of taking his place.
Beyond the Sunrise Balogh, Mary 1992
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Their visitor drew herself out of it with almost a perceptible effort, and seemed to glance consideringly at them in their aloofness, their incommunicativeness, their plain odds with her.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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If not exactly friendly, they lacked that sour incommunicativeness of the higher plateau.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Hardly a word or look had passed between him and Maggie in all the three weeks; but his usual incommunicativeness at home prevented this from being noticeable to their parents.
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From these fortuitous encounters Helen gathered the impression by degrees that though Mr. Kane might not find her satisfactory, he found her, in her incommunicativeness, quite as interesting as Thomas the footman.
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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No man had more out-rivalled an oyster in incommunicativeness.
The Mountebank William John Locke 1896
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Mr. Twentyman, the middle partner, now came in, and appeared as much or more depressed than his fellows in misfortune, and to bear it with a greater degree of English incommunicativeness and reserve.
Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890
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The Carthusian is bound to his brethren by this agreeing spirit of incommunicativeness.
Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885
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The Carthusian is bound to his brethren by this agreeing spirit of incommunicativeness.
Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Canniff Haight 1863
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